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Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
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"I wanted to like this as much as "What's the Weather Inside?" But for some reason the illustrations distracted from the poems. Also, maybe my mood when I read it, but I really only found one or two I wanted to share aloud. When reading they seemed to"
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Karma Wilson aims to emulate Shel Silverstein, but this collection lacks the punch and edge of Shel's work. At first glance, the title, cover design, and typography led me to believe it was a Silverstein book. Wilson's rhythms are immature, and the r ...more |
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The folks gerrymandering voting maps and naming military bases after Confederate generals of late will hate this book. But that's not why I give it five stars. This is a great read for middle and high school students. I teach art in Title 1 schools in ...more |
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Bridge is a touching story of the friendship between 10-year-old Jess and his tomboyish classmate Leslie. It beautifully touches on nonconformity and facing gender expectations. However, I am reluctant to recommend the book to young readers. The auth ...more |
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"Clichés should be avoided like the plague." This and other gems await you in Mr. Dreyer's tome of edification, erudition, and witification. It can be drudgery and trudgery wading through other books covering parallelism, parentheses, periods, phrasal ...more |
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“A good sentence, I find myself saying frequently, is one that the reader can follow from beginning to end, no matter how long it is, without having to double back in confusion because the writer misused or omitted a key piece of punctuation, chose a vague or misleading pronoun, or in some other way engaged in inadvertent misdirection.”
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“The things I like best in T. S. Eliot’s poetry, especially in the Four Quartets, are the semicolons. You cannot hear them, but they are there, laying out the connections between the images and the ideas. Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.”
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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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History is Not Boring
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Why do people think history is boring? I don't get it. ...more
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Michael, I just took a quick look at papernapkin.com and think it is marvelous. Fifty States of Mind is the most exciting approach to U.S. geography I've ever seen. Congratulations!
